More than half the people in the world live on less than $2 a day. That’s not much money. How much do you spend on food, coffee, rent, electricity, transportation, clothing, communications, miscellaneous each day? How much do you spend on food at home, at restaurants, for coffee, for snacks? Is it more than $2 a day?
In order to understand even just a little bit of what it is like to try to get by with few resources, why not try to experience it in a meaningful, albeit partial, way? See what it feels like to eat for just $2 a day.
It can be done…billions do it. And it can be done in a way that you don’t go hungry and that you don’t have to eat junk food (though we don’t recommend this without planning if you have health related dietary issues). Eating for $2 a day isn’t easy whether by choice or by circumstance; it takes planning and effort.
During the experience, you will gain insights, realize things about the way you eat and what you eat. When you reflect on the experience, you may be surprised by what you learn.
And learning more about how much of the world lives brings us into solidarity with those who have few choices about the food they can eat, what they can buy, how they have to plan. The fact is that there is enough food and enough money to alleviate hunger around the world today. But it will take leadership to make the decision to eradicate hunger. This experience will help you to support the cause through awareness raising.
You can also act: Eat for $2 a day then give the difference between what you spent on food and what you usually spend to an organization dedicated to the eradication of hunger. You can do it. It’s simple, but not easy.
We invite you to look around this site to see how the 2 dollar difference works. To learn more about the 2 dollar difference experience, click how 2dollardifference works at the top of this page. All sorts of helpful suggestions are there to support you in eating for $2 a day and then giving the difference to a group that will use the funds to help those in need. The tab labeled blog posts at the top of this page will take you to the new posts with facts and figures, quotations, project updates, and other initiatives. To leave comments or read what others have said, visit the chat post.
If you have questions, please contact us by email.
Take a first step to help eradicate hunger…give the difference to make a difference!
As someone who has been aware of the concept of voluntary simplicity as a lifestyle choice since the 1980′s I find this website to be a very positive approach toward creating consciousness on our every day living. I also work with the issue of global equity and see this as a wonderful opportunity for people to become engaged in a practical way in their own lives with the broad effort toward balancing distribution in our world.
Thank you for creating this website and for giving others an opportunity to make a difference.
When I lived in NYC there was a hole-in-the-wall buffet near my apartment. It cost $5 to fill a good sized container which would be my lunch and dinner. After a few visits I noticed that a street person stood outside the door, hat in hand, but never saying a word to anyone. One day I asked the man behind the counter of the buffet if I might have a second container to share my food with the man outside. Our ritual, completed in silence, continued for months. We both had enough food to survive and it cost only what we could afford ($5 and $0). The cop on the beat told me the street person was back in the psych ward and would be around again, but I never saw him.